But wait, the cab is actually amphibious so they’re going right over the river! The power of imagination

Might take kid mayor awhile to show up. Now there’s a cabbie and he says traffic is backed up for “over 300 minutes”

Currently experiencing a delightful Amtrak ride where kids are pretending to have different jobs. Recent exchange:

KID 1: I’m a New York City contractor
KID 2: Oh, how much will it be to fix our kitchen?
KID 1: All your money! And I get to decide when it’s finished

Someone’s been burned before…

Killer Bs does have a pretty good ring to it…

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

U.S. Department of Education Issues Proposed Rule to Hold Colleges and Universities Accountable for Low Earning Outcomes The U.S. Department of Education today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to establish a postsecondary education accountability framework that will break the cycle of low return on investme...

The Department of Education has issued its proposed rule regarding earnings accountability metrics and program-level tuition data. Comments are due in 30 days.

Who Gets a Guggenheim? This Professor Has An Answer Education and public policy professor Dominique Baker looked at 30,000 Guggenheim recipients to determine how influential institutional affiliation is in determining who gets one of the prestigious fe...

Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old)

We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

HBCUs and the Uneven Legacy of Academic Freedom Eddie R. Cole explores the complicated history around protecting scholars at historically Black colleges and universities and the risks of political interference in accreditation.

My latest column is an interview with renowned historian of higher ed, Eddie Cole. Come for learning about HBCUs and stay for his thoughts on why accreditation is the biggest issue we're not talking enough about in higher ed.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely…

New at PB: Dominique J. Baker (@bakerdphd.bsky.social) & Christopher T. Bennett share their research into the question: Who gets prestigious fellowships?

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Picture of pink cherry blossoms in Delaware in April 2026. There are multiple shades of pink flowers visible. In the background there is a brick wall.

Cherry blossoms!

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

RIT alumni train Artemis II astronauts in photography The four NASA astronauts on the Artemis II Moon Mission are well equipped to document their mission because of two years of training from RIT alumni.

the Artemis crew took photography classes so they could take the best photos possible up there 😭

Sounds like a job for Ken Brûlée

The Trump administration wants to sanitize George Washington’s role in slavery at President’s House The federal government uploaded digital renderings of 11 new panels that it was preparing to display at the President's House. They reframe George Washington's role in upholding slavery.

The incredible team at @inquirer.com continues to be all over this story. The revised approach the administration proposes here is very typical in recent years, qualifying statements about Washington’s enslaving by pointing to his statements in opposition to it. (Gift link) share.inquirer.com/tkvteN

WE DID IT!

Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

AUPresses Subject Area Grid - Association of University Presses Guide to the subject areas in which member presses have recently published.

I just had to send a bunch of “good idea for a book but not a good fit for us” rejections, which always bums me out, so: this is your periodic reminder that our pals at @aupresses.bsky.social publish a guide to which UPs publish in which subject areas —

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

a joyful golden retriever mid-sprint through green grass under a canopy of pink cherry blossoms

i feel like you all need this

From space, the moon fully blocks the sun, casting a dark silhouette surrounded by a glowing corona, as seen by Artemis II astronauts after reemerging from the moon’s far side.

After emerging from the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts witnessed something few have ever experienced—a total solar eclipse in space.

📷 NASA

Look to your left. Look to your right. If you’re Joe Lunardi, chances are that both those people had a better bracket than you.

I tried to give myself some wiggle room on the exact type of surveillance equipment

The Prince of Providence just barely missed the cut! If I'd realized that Summer's House: Martha's Vineyard was cancelled when I made my bingo card, I probably would have swapped him in

For those keeping track at home, we're only one episode into the Real Housewives of Rhode Island and we're already three spaces away from a bingo!

Not on my bingo card: the cousin math was for a couple that is still married

US car dealers hate EVs because EVs need a lot less maintenance
www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/202...

My favorite genre of mnemonic devices are the ones that are easy to mangle:
-In [year ending in 2], Columbus sailed the ocean blue
-Remember, remember the 5th of [month ending in -ember]

Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement Omar Wasow∗ Jacob M. Grumbach∗ April 1, 2026 Abstract What precipitates the collapse of seemingly durable social orders like Jim Crow? During the 1920s, approximately 5,000 “Rosenwald Schools” were built across the rural South through a partnership between philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and Black communities who raised matching funds, donated land, and petitioned local governments. Local elites saw vocational training that would preserve the racial order. We argue Black educators used this accommodationist cover to build veiled capacity: organizational infrastructure for collective action behind a veil of compliance. Counties with more Rosenwald Schools show greater civil rights protest in the 1960s. Mediation analysis reveals that pre-existing social capital predicted protest through Rosenwald teacher placements, not enrollment. Instrumental variable models suggest the effect is not driven by community selection. Moving from no Rosenwald teachers to the 75th percentile predicts 45% more protest. The political effects of education may depend less on what elites intend than on what educators build where elites cannot see.

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement"

The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...